Promotions

The Japan-British Society provides its members with a range of promotions throughout the year. These include discounts on tickets for UK and Japan related cultural performances, such as concerts, theatre, ballet and opera, as well exhibition tickets and other gifts.

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Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet Theatre Performance with Backstage Tour

Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 - Tuesday, 16 April, 2024

Further discount tickets for regular performances (4/10-21) are available to JBS members. Please refer to the flyer which was enclosed with the Circular Notice.

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic love story and it received universal critical acclaim when it premiered in 2019. In 2023, New...

International Symposium on the exhibition “A Treasured Legacy: A Ceremonial Court Dress of the Meiji Empress”

Saturday, 6 April, 2024 - Saturday, 6 April, 2024

Special invitation tickets are available to JBS members. Please see the circular notice February issue for details.

To commemorate the 110th Memorial Anniversary of Empress Shoken, Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute will hold an international symposium about the ceremonial court dress of Empress Shoken which is regarded...

Good

Saturday, 6 April, 2024 - Sunday, 21 April, 2024

Special discount tickets are available for JBS members. Please see the circular notice April issue.

Good is a play written by Scottish playwright Cecil Philip Taylor. This play is about the causes rather than the consequences of Nazism, about morality and seduction. It explores how...

Musical Sweeney Todd

Saturday, 9 March, 2024 - Saturday, 30 March, 2024

Special discount tickets are available to JBS members. Please refer to the enclosed flyer for further information.

A popular musical “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street” will be performed by a Japanese cast in March this year. Directed by Amon Miyamoto, starring Masachika Ichimura and...

Book: The Crossing

Tuesday, 27 February, 2024 - Friday, 8 March, 2024

A draw will be made for a copy of this book. To apply, please contact the JBS Office by 8th March.

By Manjeet Mann Translated by Keiko Nagatomo  Iwanami Shoten Publishers JPY2,420(tax incl.) ISBN:9784001164268 A trailblazing new novel about two teenagers Natalie and Sammy from opposite worlds; The Crossing is a profound story...

Book: Senpaku Jiko Chousa: Titanic, Toya-maru, kara Unyu Anzen Iinkai made

Tuesday, 27 February, 2024 - Friday, 8 March, 2024

A draw will be made for a copy of this book. To apply, please contact the JBS Office by 8th March.

By Hideo Osuga Minerva Shobo JPY6,600(tax Incl.) ISBN:978-4623093618 This book deals with the marine accident investigation, which has its origin in the English 19th century legislation, analyzing the Japanese investigation...

Book: Native ga Oshieru Igirisu Eigo Phrase 1000

Thursday, 1 February, 2024 - Thursday, 8 February, 2024

A draw will be made for 2 copies of this book. To apply, please contact the JBS Office by 8th February.

By Mairi McLaren CosmoPier Publishing Company JPY1,980(tax incl.) ISBN:978-4-86454-208-1 This book instantly eliminates all your frustrations with previous British English phrase books, such as “Native speakers don’t say things like...

Book: Cotswolds – Dento to Senren ga Ikizuku Eikoku de Ichiban Utsukushii Fukei

Wednesday, 31 January, 2024 - Thursday, 8 February, 2024

A draw will be made for 2 copies of this book. To apply, please contact the JBS Office by 8th February.

By Mayu Ekuni Jiyukokuminsha JPY1,980(tax Incl.) ISBN:978-4-426-12955-2 Looking out over the hills, you can see sheep grazing peacefully. The origin of the word Cotswolds is “sheep enclosure in rolling hillsides”. You...

Julian Stair and Shoji Kamoda The Inevitability of Vessels

Saturday, 20 January, 2024 - Sunday, 7 April, 2024

A draw will be made for 5 pairs of invitation tickets. To apply, please contact the JBS Office by 8th February.

Julian Stair, one of Britain’s leading potters, and Shoji Kamoda, known as the darling of modern Japanese ceramics, create vessels together. In this exhibition, visitors will consider the “necessity” of...

Phantom of the Opera – Ken Hill version –

Wednesday, 17 January, 2024 - Sunday, 28 January, 2024

Special discount tickets are available to JBS members. Please see the circular notice November edition for details.

Phantom of the Opera is a musical with lyrics and a book by Ken Hill. Hill’s Phantom of the Opera began its life in 1976, and inspired the version by...